CONTENTS:
FROM THE EDITORS What Makes a “Big Book”? … 1
FORUM: THE SOVIET ORDER AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1939–61
Amir Weiner and Aigi Rahi-Tamm Getting to Know You: The Soviet Surveillance System, 1939–57 … 5
Alexey Tikhomirov Symbols of Power in Rituals of Violence: The Personality Cult and Iconoclasm on the Soviet Empire’s Periphery (East Germany, 1945–61) … 47
Jeffrey S. Hardy “The Camp Is Not a Resort”: The Campaign against Privileges in the Soviet Gulag, 1957–61 … 89
FORUM: THE SOVIET FIRST PERSON
Andrew B. Stone “The Differences Were Only in the Details”: The Moral Equivalency of Stalinism and Nazism in Anatolii Bakanichev’s Twelve Years behind Barbed Wire … 123
Benjamin Tromly Intelligentsia Self-Fashioning in the Postwar Soviet Union: Revol’t Pimenov’s Political Struggle, 1949–57 … 151
Benjamin Nathans Thawed Selves: A Commentary on the Soviet First Person … 177
CLASSICS IN RETROSPECT
Addis Mason Isaiah Berlin’s Russian Thinkers and the Argument for Inclusion … 185
REVIEW ESSAYS
Donald Ostrowski Inner Asia: Empires and Silk Roads … 201
Mikhail Loukianov and Mikhail Suslov Defenders of the Motherland or Defenders of the Autocracy? … 217
REVIEWS
Anton Fedyashin Andrei Borisovich Zubov, ed., Istoriia Rossii: XX vek [A History of Russia: The 20th Century], 2 vols. … 233
Alexei Kojevnikov Jay Bergman, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov … 243
LETTERS
Kevin Murphy To the Editors … 251
Contributors to This Issue … 253